noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distant memory (= something that happened a long time ago )
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Already the summer seemed like a distant memory.
a painful memory
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The photograph brought back painful memories.
a vague recollection/memory
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I have only a vague recollection of what the house looked like.
banish the memory/thought/image etc (of sb/sth)
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They tried to banish the memory from their minds.
cherish...memory
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I cherish the memory of that day.
childhood memories
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The smell in the air brought back happy childhood memories.
erase sth from your mind/memory
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He couldn’t erase the image from his mind.
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She had tried to erase the memory of that day.
flash memory
imprint sth on your mind/memory/brain etc
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The sight of Joe’s dead body was imprinted on his mind forever.
live in...memory
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That day will always live in my memory .
long memory
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He has a long memory .
loss of memory
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a temporary loss of memory
memory bank
memory card
memory hog
memory lapses (= when you cannot remember something for a short time )
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After taking the drug, several patients suffered memory lapses .
Memory Stick
photographic memory
random access memory
read-only memory
sb’s earliest memory (= the first thing you can remember about something from your past )
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One of my earliest memories is of being at a busy railway station, trying to find my mum.
selective memory (= he chooses what he wants to remember and what to forget )
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He has a very selective memory .
short-term memory
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She’s suffering from short-term memory loss.
stamped on...memory
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The experience remained stamped on her memory for many years.
stir memories/emotions etc
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Looking at the photographs stirred childhood memories of the long hot summers.
trigger a memory (= make you suddenly remember something )
unhappy memories
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Ruth tried to put these unhappy memories from her mind.
virtual memory
wince at the memory/thought/idea
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I still wince at the thought of that terrible evening.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories .
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However, Turner was involved in another play that brought back some bad memories for Raiders fans.
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The win also helped him to bury the bad memory of an experience on June 17 last year.
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But the previous eight years had been the worst in local memory .
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He says that being at Barrow Wake does bring back bad memories .
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How could you not realize it just brings back so many bad memories .
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For many, the worst memories of that era are of food shortages because of the disruption to the agricultural system.
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But the application conjures up bad memories .
distant
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Consequently the forms of paternalism signified by feudal relations are more likely to be a recent tradition rather than a distant memory .
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Serious problems from a life onshore can fade rapidly to distant memories as sight of land is lost.
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The calm was a strange one - a distant memory .
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Euclid and Cicero were a distant memory now.
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Driven there by some distant memory from his youth.
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But that was a distant , incredible memory now.
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The national institution of the past 60-odd years could soon be a distant memory .
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But that is now a distant memory .
early
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Ah! a very early memory ... just a flash.
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As she remembered these events, she was drawn back to an even earlier set of memories .
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Even there the gleam Of earlier memory like enchantment lay.
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In my very earliest memories , I am hungry, always hungry.
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When, in the early 1980s, memory came back into neuroscience fashion again, it did so in new forms.
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Oral historians had meanwhile begun to record the earlier memories of ordinary old people, working right across the country.
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What is your earliest memory of a story where something or somebody changed?
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Elevated muscarinic receptor seemed therefore to be associated with the early phases of memory formation.
fond
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I have some very fond memories of track life.
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His smile widened as many fond memories came flooding back.
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He ought to have fond memories of the place.
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Her fond memories anyway, and what did Lucy think?
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I have only fond memories of my childhood in my own village.
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There will be many fond memories taken away from the city which will hopefully be renewed should we visit next year.
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Indeed, today, those evenings rank amongst my fondest memories from those times.
happy
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Many topics may arise from such conversations, many happy and formative memories can be rekindled.
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There are happy memories and there are sad, all floating in our minds together.
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Their fortunes will become more divided than before: some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others.
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I should have kept my happy memories .
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I have many happy memories of a time when the world was innocent as were most of us.
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Now she could fabricate for herself rich and happy memories .
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Some of my happiest memories date from the time when Father was alive.
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The refugees who arrived starving and thirsty in 1948 do not have happy memories of their reception.
living
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It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory .
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For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory .
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Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.
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This dinner they planned must capture the living memory of every lucky guest.
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Judging by their recent performances, they were all living on their memories .
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The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory .
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Within living memory , like mine for instance, it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U ....
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Symbols of gracious living or memories of childhood dreams, popular prints allowed for vicarious experience.
long
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Despite the interference in short term memory , the overall increase in information sampled will improve long term memory.
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The ads have been effective with seniors across the country, and the residents of Leisure World have long memories .
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Near memory 4. Long memory 5.
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People have long memories for unrelenting tragedy that strikes so close to home.
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The doctor probed - the longer memories , the childhood.
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They must have long memories , Mungo thought, lying here in permanent dusk.
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He too had discovered that the Nordic people have long memories .
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Doran's short temper and long memory were famous in Little Tuckett.
only
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Surely he was only afraid his memories might fade, leaving him dispossessed.
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That was not the only memory they would treasure.
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Those are my only remaining memories of the first five years.
painful
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He sobbed as he relived the painful memory .
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For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.
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Feeling her stomach churn with the painful memories , she leaned sideways and was violently sick.
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Democrats, too, have painful Medicare memories .
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We have to drop the charge and put the painful memories on one side.
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The painful memory of last year's semi-final defeat by Kilkenny acts as another spur.
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But those painful memories are erased by thoughts of future glory as Jodami whisks Anthea across the moorland gallops.
poor
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There may be physical and other handicaps such as impaired sight or poor memory .
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We know that most organizations have poor memories , implicitly inviting newer workers to make the same old mistakes.
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Perhaps she had a poor memory and kept forgetting where she had left them.
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Her poor memory was altogether irrelevant to her status as an alien.
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This suggests again a poor visual memory .
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How poor her own memories seemed at the side of this.
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It is also much more affected by poor memory and exaggeration.
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If you have a poor memory you could slip away for a moment and write yourself a quick note.
random
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Logitech's FotoMan digital camera stores 32 digitized photos in random access memory instead of on film.
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In fact, it had no random access memory at all.
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Fig. 20. Random access memory illustration.
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It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory , a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
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She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns, hoping to make sense.
recent
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Just a plate of moist, fluffy eggs mixed with bits of some of the tastiest, juiciest ham of recent memory .
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This evening will be like none other in recent memory .
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The fans chanted his name for the first time in recent memory .
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These two are destined for one another-and fated to deliver one of the worst scripts in recent memory .
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The caribou have left Maine within recent memory , and extensive spruce-fir forests remain only in northern Maine.
short
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Decrements at high levels are assumed to be the result of the impairment to short memory .
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One thing my customer never forgot was that Salomon Brothers thought he had a short memory .
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We all have very short memories , and so have probably forgotten how Rolling News emerged.
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But international lenders have notoriously short memories and start to lend again remarkably rapidly.
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Despite the interference in short term memory , the overall increase in information sampled will improve long term memory.
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But many investors have proven to have notoriously short memories .
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Unbelief, on the other hand, has a short and ungrateful memory .
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A forgiving strategy is one that, although it may retaliate, has a short memory .
vivid
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Even more interestingly, he was possibly one of the last people to have vivid personal memories of the 1859 Revival.
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Meanwhile, those who observed the jumbo jet exploding say they still have vivid memories .
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Jack Russell's painting inspires vivid memories of that moment of discovery.
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He has vivid memories of how it feels to lose your job.
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Years later that journey still remained vivid in his memory .
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It remains one of the most vivid and magical memories of my life.
■ NOUN
bank
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We boiled your memory banks down into two categories - the rest we threw away, sorry to say.
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They functioned as the living and growing memory banks for the entire corporation.
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In a matter of seconds, his fingerprints had been photographed and checked by computer against the central memory banks .
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The three memory banks represent the red, green and blue components of the image seen on the television monitor.
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Eight bit-planes per memory bank allows 256 levels of the associated primary colour to be represented.
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Earlier than that still, and his memory banks were empty.
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The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor.
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What implants a salad in the memory banks is the salad dressing.
childhood
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It is immediately noticeable that the great majority of comments come from the childhood memories .
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Patricia Polacco has won the hearts of millions of children with her rich stories drawn from childhood memories .
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InPart One the life stories are used only retrospectively, drawing on childhood memories of grandparents.
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But can I count as a reliable source my own childhood memories ?
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It very nearly is us: as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms.
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Following his team connects him to the region that formed him. Childhood memories hooked her to a team for life.
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He summoned up childhood memories and a long love for a part of his musical heritage in a piece called Blues Suite.
chip
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This opens the way for low-cost and high-performance 64M-bit Flash memory chips based on a 0.4 micron design rule.
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It said that revenues for memory chips would fall 27 percent in 1996 from 1995.
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Most of the costs of producing a memory chip are fixed, because of the elaborate factories and equipment needed.
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Unlike other memory chips , flash does not lose the stored contents when the computer is disconnected from a power supply.
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All told, demand for memory chips fell more than 16% in 1990.
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In your computer, the stockroom is the main bank of memory chips , and your processor is the line of customers.
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New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30-40 times the price of the industry's mainstream product.
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Within a memory chip , this acts as a tiny switch that is either on or off.
lane
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Have a word with your Mazda dealer and take a test drive down memory lane .
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Talk about a wondrous stroll down one whacked-out memory lane .
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Today we're taking a stylish trip down memory lane .
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We had a real trip down memory lane , talking about your grandmother as she was years ago.
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Taking you down memory lane time and time again.
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But the memory lane he points the audience down isn't one that starts in Britain.
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It was a glimpse of the old Connors, fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane .
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This will be a trip down memory lane for the right hon. Gentleman.
loss
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Nearly every person experiences memory loss as a normal part of the aging process.
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Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss .
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The program will explore normal memory loss and strategies to help improve memory.
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Later in the course of the disease, people may develop clumsy gait, memory loss and speech difficulties.
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Some experts claim the phones can cause tumours, headaches and memory loss .
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Karadzic's continued freedom and the collective memory loss may suit international politics.
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But lately some researchers are challenging the notion that memory loss is inevitable.
■ VERB
bring
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Every time she has a birthday it will bring back memories .
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However, Turner was involved in another play that brought back some bad memories for Raiders fans.
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She's now left with little more than photographs to bring back memories of her late husband.
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How her memory brought me my memory.
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The stink assailed his nostrils, bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him.
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Medically prescribed drugs - essential though they may be - sometimes bring about confusion or memory loss.
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But I haven't bothered with dresses for so long - it brings back some happy memories of my young days.
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In a recent defence of investment in education, Stonier brought back memories of the early 1960s.
commit
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However, invariably, it is not only bad experiences of learning that are committed to memory .
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The former I destroyed before entering the port of Vera Cruz, having committed it to memory .
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In theory this sounds quite unrealistic but the worker is reassured that none of these topics need be committed to memory .
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The second man looked hard at Jean-Pierre, as if committing his face to memory .
erase
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Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories .
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They badly needed to get off strong Sunday to erase that memory .
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The answer is always to erase everything from memory pertaining to previous projects.
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How much else had he forgotten: Did hibernation erase memory ?
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Five years can change opinions; ten years can erase memories .
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Might not a murderer, she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
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So why couldn't she erase from her memory the image of fitzAlan, tall and strong and golden in the firelight?
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He must so dearly have wished the first two sets could have been instantly erased from memory .
jog
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The list will thus serve to jog your memory and ensure that you do not overlook significant items.
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Three incidental features of forensic hypnosis may help jog memories , but these potential memory aids are not unique to hypnosis.
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A notice at eye level inside the bathroom door can jog your memory and avoid some trying mopping-up operations later.
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Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered, it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory .
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In fact, I think it was seeing you, there on the doorstep, that jogged my memory .
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These served to establish claims, to recall old friendship, to jog the memory about old times.
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But if you jog his memory , he will see your point before he can help it.
live
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The scene will always live in my memory .
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They functioned as the living and growing memory banks for the entire corporation.
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Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory , these are unhappy days.
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They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory .
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Speech does, of course, live on in memory but, as we all know, memory can be very unreliable.
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For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
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It has doubled within living memory .
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After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory .
lose
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If they break off their constant peregrinations, their voice seizes up and they lose their memory .
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My fingerprints will not lose their memory .
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As a result of the instability and interactions, the pattern rapidly loses any detailed memory of its initial state.
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Is she losing her memory as well as her teeth?
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In losing its design memory , it seems, Ford forgot what customers wanted.
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He has a disease that causes him to lose his memory .
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I read about it in Vogue ... how it makes you lose your memory .
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They lose long-ago memories as well as failing to store new memones.
refresh
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All evening I refreshed my memory with theoretical skills on dental mechanics and wrote my job application letter.
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I drew the shower curtain and took a look at the fellow, just to refresh my memory .
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Because if they don't, let me refresh your memory .
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You may also need to refresh your memory before you go to visit somebody.
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And likeable Ed Byrne refreshed the memory with a routine more over-exposed than Keith Chegwin's privates.
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She arranged a meeting with one of her former mandarins, who was able to refresh her memory on many points.
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April's encouraging climate should do much to refresh your memory .
remain
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The river and its fish remained just a memory .
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The sounds and sights encountered at these times will remain etched in my memory for ever.
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However, the biggest single barrier remains the memory limitation inherent in chip storage.
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The menu that night was cottage pie and chips, a combination which has remained engraved on my memory .
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The solemn and deep tones in which these words were delivered have remained fixed in my memory .
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González's biggest card remains the memory of Franco.
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To this day his marriage remains lodged in local memory chiefly because of the arrival of his London Bohemian friends.
stir
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Her visit to the Doctor seemed to have stirred up old memories , like sediment at the bottom of a pond.
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For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.
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The story stirs something in our memory .
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Then, last fall, a newspaper story stirred old memories and rekindled her search.
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I stared at that face and something stirred in my memory .
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It gave off a fragrant smell which stirred my memory though I could not place it.
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Like a dead cat, Franca strangely thought, stirred by some memory .
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Even so, the impending auction has stirred poignant memories .
store
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She stored that memory away, together with the memory of the forest in the foreground as she walked on.
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Interestingly, the impairment is of the ability to form new memories , not the ability to recall stored memories.
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The experience is not forgotten but is stored in memory .
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While online, the user could play the game, which would be stored in short-term memory .
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All this is stored in the subconscious memory and the habit continues when we grow up.
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Everything stored in the memory of a computer can be copied on to removable diskettes.
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In the midst of darkness come some stored memories of a different sort.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart
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The date was engraved on his heart.
be etched on/in your memory/mind
commit sth to memory
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Some really dedicated fans have committed entire passages of the movie to memory.
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Sometimes, conductors have to commit complete scores to memory.
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The former I destroyed before entering the port of Vera Cruz, having committed it to memory.
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The second man looked hard at Jean-Pierre, as if committing his face to memory.
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What you must now do is commit the words to memory and take twenty cards from the pack.
have a memory like a sieve
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You'd better remind him about the party - he's got a memory like a sieve !
have a short memory
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Bring any player back and he does not perform and people have short memories.
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Manufacturers have short memories, you know.
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Other strategies might be more forgiving and have shorter memories.
have fond memories of sth/sb
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He ought to have fond memories of the place.
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I have fond memories of Sussex-playing pool and, much more to the point, the excellent discussions on science.
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She would have been pleased that the youngsters who come and go will have fond memories of their day in hospital.
in/within living memory
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After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.
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For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
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For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.
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It has doubled within living memory.
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It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.
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Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.
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The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.
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They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory.
jog sb's memory
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Maybe this picture will help jog your memory.
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Police hope the sketch will jog someone's memory and help identify the gunman.
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Something about what he said jogged my memory about an article I had read the month before.
refresh sb's memory
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Before the exam he read through his notes once more to refresh his memory.
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If you can't remember where you were on June 15, Mr Ball, maybe these photos will refresh your memory.
slip your mind/memory
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He had seemed thrown for a moment, as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married.
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I can't believe it has slipped my mind.
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It slipped my mind because of the tragedy that followed.
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It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft!
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It had slipped his mind entirely that today.
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Jean hadn't even asked Helen what she had said; the entire episode had slipped her mind.
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Yes, that had slipped her mind.
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You think something as important as that would slip my mind?
storehouse of information/memories etc
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It comprises a vast and ever-changing storehouse of information and entertainment.
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Using as data what respondents say about themselves offers the social researcher access to a vast storehouse of information.
wipe sth from your mind/memory
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And when he had done with her, she could wipe him from her mind, obliterate him.
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He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds.
working memory
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From that, you might be able to reconstitute the activity present during working memory.
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If this were the case there would be no need for a working memory.
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It is not clear whether this articulation makes use of the working memory system or is independent.
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Studies of working memory in animals may seem to be rather remote from the standard, acquired distinctiveness procedure.
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The speech left provides for an internal speech code which passes through a working memory system where it can be examined.
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The system is then being driven by working memory.
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Unless we attend to the words which have been placed into working memory, they will not be retained.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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16 megabytes of memory
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Grandpa was getting old and his memory wasn't so good.
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He's got a good memory , but I wouldn't call him intelligent.
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I've got a terrible memory for names.
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I have lots of happy memories of my time in Japan.
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Now, his experiences were just a painful memory .
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She is blessed with a photographic memory .
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These stories were told and retold, mainly from memory .
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This place holds lots of memories for us.
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Was she losing her memory as well as her teeth?
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We're playing the old songs that I'm sure will bring back memories for you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both computers had a 28, 800-baud fax modem, 16 megabytes of random-access memory and voice mail / speakerphone capabilities.
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I have many happy memories of eating Frankfurters with lashings of mustard in Cologne.
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One of my first memories was when he shot a mountain lion and he let me shoot it too.
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She may have been held back, too, by memories of near suffocation.
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So this brings your memories back.
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The scene will always live in my memory .
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Under silver roofs and filigree balconies, gleaming in the freezing sunshine, thoughtful locals swap memories and theories.